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The Holy War Delusion: Is it Time to Retire Our Religions?
In this urgent monologue, Rushkoff explores the heartbreaking crisis of modern faith. As religious identities are weaponized by nationalism, literalism, and holy war narratives, from Christian…
Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power
The tech elite are wielding occult power, but we have the imagination.Join us in the live chat for our first-ever Team Human Premiere! Douglas Rushkoff sits down with legendary comic writer and chaos…
The Tech Elite’s “Frictionless” Fantasy (Amd Why It Will Fail)
The digital world promises a frictionless existence of infinite growth, convenience, and total scale. But what happens when that virtual map starts consuming the real territory? Rushkoff reflects on…
The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)
Has the internet always been a magical space?Shira Chess, a Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and a leading scholar of digital folklore, dive into her new…
My Dinner With Jeffrey: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Us All
"Why are you in the Epstein files?"It is a question Rushkoff received from his own daughter, and in this raw monologue, he gives the full answer.His name appears in the CC field of emails from his…
Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz)
Is the online safety legislation moving through Congress actually a Trojan horse for mass surveillance? And do the tech billionaires building our future actually care if the rest of us survive…
The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz
Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality?Rushkoff sits down with occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz (Occult America, Daydream Believer) to…
Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen
We are no longer waiting for the other shoe to drop: We are living in the aftermath. Rushkoff sits down with Jonathan Larsen, editor of The Fucking News, to ask the question: Now that we are soaking…
We’re Soaking In It: Why It’s Too Late to Prepare for Authoritarianism
The other shoe finally dropped. We are no longer waiting for authoritarianism to arrive; we are soaking in it.Rushkoff argues that the time for speculation, strategizing about political optics, and…
We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo
Playing for Team Human today, multidisciplinary researcher and author Eric Wargo joins Rushkoff to help us decolonize our minds from the linear march of deterministic doom.Together, they explore the…
Cameron Berg: Alien Minds & Self-Other Overlap - Teaching AI Empathy
Artificial Intelligence researcher Cameron Berg joins Rushkoff to discuss Frontier Alignment Research and the urgent need to intervene on behalf of human (and synthetic) flourishing.Together, they…
You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd
If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone.In this monologue, Rushkoff argues that our built environment has become so convoluted that accepting…
Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?
Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, explores the power of Libraries of Things, mutual aid, and community-run infrastructure as practical alternatives to extraction-based…
Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary
Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist, takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination.Known for provocative AI videos imagining figures…
Cracks in the Pavement
Rushkoff discusses why the urgency and inevitability of our situation calls for us to consider the impossible.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth:…
Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes
Vicki Robin, author of classic books like Your Money or Your Life and Blessing and The Hands That Feed Us, and Rushkoff seek to embrace this challenging moment by embracing one another. Robin shares…
Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization
Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and integrator, helps us investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability and develop the…
Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts
Arden Leigh , the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project and front woman of Arden and the Wolves, helps us negotiate a new relationship to our individual and collective creative…
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other
Could the end of employment be the beginning of something better? Rushkoff traces the history of work from medieval markets to AI automation to find hope in the cracks of collapse. He shows how the…
Jonathan Larsen: This is Just the Beginning - Enacting the Team Human Agenda
Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, joins Rushkoff to discuss the 2025 U.S. Election and the path forward for Team Human.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about…
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Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff has published 408 episodes since July 2016, covering topics in Society & Culture, Technology.
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